[atlas] VM probes (was Re: Feature request for IP record route feature in RIPE Atlas)

Hello, Community!

I like idea about VM based Anchor's.

For example in Russia we have so much companies who really want to
host RIPE Anchor hosting but it's really hard due to so much
bureaucracy for computer hardware import. It's really sophisticated
and long task.

VM based Anchors could help in this case. But they should be
designated as "second-rate monitoring". So somebody who interested in
monitoring over non-so-reliable-vm's could use they. Actually, this
VM's should "mine" less points than full-size-Anchor.

We could select some unified way to run VM's. I prefer VmWare because it's:
1) Free
2) Simple to deploy
3) Mature
4) Very simple VM deploy

Xen, KVM are pretty too but they are based on non standard linux
distributions and it could be a configuration issue. OpenVZ/Docker and
LXC should be avoided because (actually I have so much experience with
they and I'm not a technology hater) they are not offer dedicated
service and not isolated perfectly from each other processes.



On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Gert Doering <gert at space.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 09:33:01AM +0100, Daniel Karrenberg wrote:
>> >From my personal, informal assessment I advise against supporting VMs. I
>> recommend a thorough assessment of the data quality, the costs and the
>> effects on RIPE Atlas as a whole before diving into soloutioneering.
>
> From experience running a recursive DNS on a VM platform,  I'd also speak
> against supporting VMs.  Unpredictable load elsewhere on the same host
> can (and does) lead to UDP/ICMP packet loss, which the "Atlas VM" won't
> be able to differenciate from "something on the path is broken/lossy".
>
> Gert Doering
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